Feature parity between desktop and iOS

• Duplicate / Copy a record


• Showing « looked-up » pictures instead of some sort of link


• the ability to modify a record without the « expanded view »


• Adding documents from iCloud documents


• …

That’s all I can think of for now …

Right now my frustration of having to use such a feature broken app compared to the desktop is just massive. Anyone else feel the pain?

At the very least, a simple announcement from Airtable that they’re “working on it” would suffice.

@Airtable_Team - I could really benefit from iOS views honoring hidden fields.

Trying to convince/push my boss towards wider adoption of Airtable for workflows within our department, but he doesn’t like the idea of users seeing all the behind-the-scenes formula fields I have working on the data they input.

Another vote for this. Airtable on the iPad is fantastic for our users, but he lack of some of the desktop features really hinders its usability.

This is a big deal. I just started trying Airtable and hit this right away while trying to make a gallery view on mobile.

I’m leaving Airtable now for this reason.

Airtable marketing itself as a part of the new league (with beautiful and cross-platform, feature-complete apps like Slack) while having this huge chasm between what you can do on the desktop and what you can do on mobile gives me a bad feeling and erodes trust.

This is a real showstopper. I was hoping at least using a browser on the iPad would mean I could use Airtable’s fuller functionality, but you are also unable to access the web version through a browser on the iPad.

I have introduced so far 30 new clients to Airtable in the last couple of months. But without at least some of the basics here, I will need to unwind those clients and find something else. Does anyone know of an app that has similar functionality but is ready for mobile? (Please don’t just post competitors to Airtable, which doesn’t belong here. Just apps that are truly mobile ready, i.e. in a market that Airtable isn’t yet truly addressing).

Thank you.

By using “Request Desktop Site” on Airtable.com, you can access it from mobile.

But scrolling doesn’t work for me

Yes - as per Jonatan’s advice above, if you follow these steps you can view all the desktop options, such as calendar view, blocks etc on iOS, iPads etc:

• Open Safari


• Click on the share button at top right of screen


• Scroll the bottom row of icons until you get to Request Desktop Site


• Click that button


• Login to Airtable.com
  

Hope this helps people.

Finding the desktop version on mobile is not a valid option for unlocking the potential of airtable for us. Our field reps need to be able to use more functionality on iOS, especially kanban.

It’s worth an extra fee for us. Airtable would be our go to.

I’m here to bump this thread.

iOS Form View has been a feature request since at least 2017, and iOS honoring hidden field settings has been requested for almost the same length of time.

What’s the major roadblock to implementing these features in the app? Is your team short on iOS devs? Can the community help in some way?

Bumping up this thread.

Just adding my voice to this chorus of requests for iOS feature parity. More and more people and organizations are becoming mobile-first or mobile-only. I’m a small business owner myself - iPad-first - and would happily pay for a pro subscription if the mobile/iOS versions were given first-class priority to match features, or at least, if there was even a semblance of an attempt to do so.

I looked at the release notes on the App Store and the vast majority are generic “Bug fixes and performance improvements”. C’mon guys, AirTable on iOS - the app is so good, and IMO a much better experience for basic management of bases than a web browser - all things being equal. It just needs to match all the new features released in the last 3 years!

Bumping this again! Please bring more features to mobile!

I can’t scroll either. I’m trying to use Airtable on my iPad pro and it’s nothing short of a nightmare. I don’t understand why the iPad app doesn’t have full desktop functionality.

+1 to this. The most basic interaction - editing anything - is a complete nightmare. Here’s what you’re in for:

Instead of letting you simply tap on a cell and make your change, tapping on a cell in Airtable IOS edition forces open the record view(!)…which then doesn’t give focus to the field you just tapped on(!!). Which means hunting for the very thing you just interacted with, so you can tap on it a second time.

All annoying enough, but then the killer: IOS record view refuses to honour hidden fields. (!!!) Which means you’re now playing Where’s Wally among the complete list of every field you ever created for this database…all to find something that you’ve already tapped on.

I love working with Airtable on a desktop, but it’s not ready for fieldwork yet on mobile devices.

I’ve got to add my wish to the list. Kanban and calendar views on desktop are great, and seeing them on iOS would be super beneficial. Is this on the roadmap?

Airtable is looking to hire an iOS engineer (and an Android one too), and from the sound of the job listing, it seems like they don’t currently have a lead engineer doing full-time development on the iOS app. That would explain the mostly radio silence regarding updates to the iOS app in the last several months… but it’s promising that they are looking to fill this role.

Thanks Jeremy - any idea how long this job posting has been up for? That they appear to be looking for an iOS engineer (finally!?) is promising and at the same time troubling if it’s only for one developer. Considering how far iOS is lagging behind the web version in features, I feel like they’d need a small team to catch up and keep up with the pace of development.

The addition of buttons from summer '22 reinvigorated my use of the iOS version. The Grouped Grid View Announcement of 2020 was a big step in the right direction.

I would like to see the following capabilities added to the iOS Grid View:

• Filter records


• Show item colors. Personally don’t need to edit colors in iOS. I can do that on desktop. Just want to see the colors.

The load desktop in mobile web browser workaround doesn’t cut it for my purposes e.g. in the browser I need to open Expanded View of a record to activate a button which is an extra step where in the iOS app the button activates directly from the Grid View.